The Woodland Park Zoo opened it’s state of the art Penguin exhibit in 2009 with just 20 Humboldt Penguins. They’ve been incredibly successful and last summer they hatched their 50th chick and sent many of them to other zoos around the country. This was all done under guidance of the Species Survival Plan (SSP). There are only about 12,000 Humboldt Penguins left in the wild and are classified as threatened, which is just shy of being considered endangered.
Penguins at Woodland Park Zoo
Notice the splotch of missing feathers on the penguin on the right? That penguin is shedding old feathers and growing in new ones, a process called molting.